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Mike Morearty
Personal blog · morearty.com/blogprogramming
Mike Morearty's personal blog at morearty.com covers programming. Since 2008, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2013, but the archive is still widely read.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Mike Morearty's post on E4X pitfalls, the XML syntax extension in JavaScript. One commenter cites it while recalling problems with E4X's blurring of XML and XMLList.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
Reminds me of the regrettable mistake that was E4X. I used it when developing TomTom Home on xulrunner, and its helpful "blurring" of XML and XMLList was no help at all, a misguided attempt to oversimplify something that just ain't that simple. I couldn't believe they designed it that way on purpose. It made JavaScript seem more like PHP. http://www.morearty.com/blog/2007/03/13/common-e4x-pitfalls/ 5. E4X intentiona…
Comment linking /blog/2007/03/13/common-e4x-pitfalls/
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